KKKKKocaine
11-30-2004, 12:29 PM
This is going to be a testing ground for something I'm writing about people who throw bottles at gigs, and people who find it funny and acceptable practice.
So lets play pretend, You are the vocalist for a new metal band, you are playing a gig in a pub, having a good time, When suddenly 20 fans of pop run in and start throwing bottles at you because they hate metal, You get cut, you have to go to hospital to have glass taken out of your leg, the gig is ruined.
But why were you bottled?
Because a bunch of ignorant, immature and logic ridden kids decided that seen as they don't like what you do, they will attack you for it.
What is wrong with people when they feel they have to come see a band they hate?
If you didn't like 50 cent at LeedsFest, Why didn't you just go back to your tent and get drunk, Why did you feel the need to pelt a preformer with bottles purely because you don't like him?
All he is doing, is what he loves to do and what he wants to do, Does that merit trying to beat someone up? Attacking someone based on their musical tastes?
If the example above happened to you, then you wouldn't be very happy, in fact the first thing to come out of your mouth would be "Why can't people grow up?"
This is where hypocracy kicks in, the majority of bottle throwers are fans at festivals, mostly rock.
Yet in any country on the globe, you can find a group of rock fans who bitch and moan about townies/chavs (whatever you want to call them) attacking them and giving them verbal abuse, based soley on their musical tastes.
What would you say if you took a bottle in the face because you had a 'Pantera' shirt on?
So why does any preformer of any style deserve to be attacked?
"They are just in it for the money" is a stupid example.
Do you throw bottles at businessmen?
Do you throw bottles at managers?
Do you throw bottles at yourself for working partime?
Because after all, you don't stack shelves because you love it, You do it because you want the money.
A much more strong and mature method of opposing money hungry musicians would to be walk away.
What message would that have sent at Leeds fest if a crowd of thousands turned into less than a hundred?
There is an added bonus to this as well, No-one has to get shards of glass in them, No-ones day is ruined, Everyone gets to be happy.
Now I've heard rumors of Busted playing a festival soon, and I've also heard the good old "We'll go bottle them", Well thats really mature isn't it?
If you have a real beef with the band, then why don't you go face to face with them afterwards?
I bet that no-one at leeds fest would have go up to 50 cent at the end of his set after they threw a bottle at him.
Bottle throwing is pathetic, Hypocritical and a demonstration of your own stupidity, If you throw bottles at gigs, You do not deserve to be in a band, You simply lack the maturity and intelligence.
So what does everyone think? It's still in work and it's fairly short at the moment.
So lets play pretend, You are the vocalist for a new metal band, you are playing a gig in a pub, having a good time, When suddenly 20 fans of pop run in and start throwing bottles at you because they hate metal, You get cut, you have to go to hospital to have glass taken out of your leg, the gig is ruined.
But why were you bottled?
Because a bunch of ignorant, immature and logic ridden kids decided that seen as they don't like what you do, they will attack you for it.
What is wrong with people when they feel they have to come see a band they hate?
If you didn't like 50 cent at LeedsFest, Why didn't you just go back to your tent and get drunk, Why did you feel the need to pelt a preformer with bottles purely because you don't like him?
All he is doing, is what he loves to do and what he wants to do, Does that merit trying to beat someone up? Attacking someone based on their musical tastes?
If the example above happened to you, then you wouldn't be very happy, in fact the first thing to come out of your mouth would be "Why can't people grow up?"
This is where hypocracy kicks in, the majority of bottle throwers are fans at festivals, mostly rock.
Yet in any country on the globe, you can find a group of rock fans who bitch and moan about townies/chavs (whatever you want to call them) attacking them and giving them verbal abuse, based soley on their musical tastes.
What would you say if you took a bottle in the face because you had a 'Pantera' shirt on?
So why does any preformer of any style deserve to be attacked?
"They are just in it for the money" is a stupid example.
Do you throw bottles at businessmen?
Do you throw bottles at managers?
Do you throw bottles at yourself for working partime?
Because after all, you don't stack shelves because you love it, You do it because you want the money.
A much more strong and mature method of opposing money hungry musicians would to be walk away.
What message would that have sent at Leeds fest if a crowd of thousands turned into less than a hundred?
There is an added bonus to this as well, No-one has to get shards of glass in them, No-ones day is ruined, Everyone gets to be happy.
Now I've heard rumors of Busted playing a festival soon, and I've also heard the good old "We'll go bottle them", Well thats really mature isn't it?
If you have a real beef with the band, then why don't you go face to face with them afterwards?
I bet that no-one at leeds fest would have go up to 50 cent at the end of his set after they threw a bottle at him.
Bottle throwing is pathetic, Hypocritical and a demonstration of your own stupidity, If you throw bottles at gigs, You do not deserve to be in a band, You simply lack the maturity and intelligence.
So what does everyone think? It's still in work and it's fairly short at the moment.